• solrize@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    Violent aggression per se (carrying around a big club and using it to bonk anyone who put up resistance) hasn’t worked in quite a while. These days it’s more about propaganda.

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      Isn’t that arguably only because modern governments maintain a “monopoly on violence,” essentially?